Thursday, September 21, 2017

From ‘Water Green’ to ‘Man-made Ignorance’

E.F.Schumacher was a German statistician and economist who is best
known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate
technologies. His book “Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if
People Mattered” was ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of
the 100 most influential books published since World War II. In this
issue we have given a few of his quotable quotes.

In the wisdom section, C.Douglas Lummis explains us the real meaning
of ‘Prosper - According to Hope’, Majid Rahnema basically an Iranian
writes about ‘Voluntary Poverty’ based on age old moral principles of
simplicity and finally Dr.Vandana Shiva, World renowned Environmental
thinker says that ‘Man-made Ignorance’ is becoming a new source of
threat to life on this planet.